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      Diary of the Dead

      R Released Feb 15, 2008 1h 35m Horror Mystery & Thriller List
      61% 131 Reviews Tomatometer 41% 25,000+ Ratings Audience Score While on location filming a horror movie, a group of college students find themselves overrun by zombies, and ultimately end up capturing the epidemic on film. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Nov 01 Buy Now

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      As Diary of the Dead proves, time hasn't subdued George A. Romero's affection for mixing politics with gore, nor has it given him cinematic grace or subtlety.

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      Fleegle B A really great Zombie movie and is the best found footage style movie ever Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/13/24 Full Review Alec B I'm surprised this movie wasn't an angry anti-modern technology rant by an old man. In fact Romero demonstrates understanding of that technology and a desire to seriously examine how it has changed society. The horror genre seems as good a place as any for that kind of study, it's just too bad that Romero's more high minded notions come at the expense of a lot of other elements in the movie. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/18/23 Full Review Vito P Romero resets his saga, passionately returning to independent cinema and, in addition to his typical social criticism, cleverly manages to explain through the mockumentary that, despite the means available to everyone today, it is not possible to create a work of art without having ideas and developing them creatively. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/11/23 Full Review Andre G It was an ok movie. I didn't like that you could only watch it through their camera view. I also didn't like that if you died you became a zombie. Even if you weren't bitten. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/09/23 Full Review Drew F He tried to do something different with this one and he mostly pulled it off. Check out Land of the Dead, his masterpiece, first but give this one a shot as well. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/19/23 Full Review Audience Member 15 years later and still one of my favorite entries in the 'Dead' series by the late George A. Romero Dimension Films presents another chapter but presented in the found footage style format from the perspective of a camera person Recorded on a tv news camera it tells the truth of what happened to the world The dead have come back to life and it’s all captured on digital whether from internet blogs, self recordings or government surveillance The main players here consist of Jason Creed and his girlfriend played by Shawn Roberts and Michelle Morgan with a bunch of film students including a pre-Orphan Black Tatiana Maslany and Megan Park While making a mummy movie they all stumble into the apocalyptic event (this actually goes back to the first night this outbreak happened) Jason and crew attempt to stay together to battle hordes of undead all while chronicling their survival as best they can The movie has plenty of memorable characters, amazing gore and makeup effects, and real-world grounded feel Considering what’s been happening with the army coming in taking lethal action, the undead claiming as many lives as possible, and constantly filming everything this does make us question the stability of our species Are we worth saving?, when all hell breaks loose everyone flees, is the news all fake?, all everyone wants is the truth, if it didn’t happen on camera it’s like it never happened, the job of a journalist is to keep shooting, something bad happens we don’t stop to help we just look, the media either lies or the government lies to them The film cleverly mixes politics with the undead discussing family, the military, capitalism, and class division Covers a lot of ugly reflections on human society but also being funny, dark, and creepy We all find out what we are capable of becoming even facing death and destruction, when the rules change we have no choice but to play by them A better movie than you think Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      David Fear Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Ben Kenigsberg Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle It's rough around the edges, dirty in the middle, and stained through with a sort of nihilistic humanism that ultimately unsettles more than the lurching undead themselves. Rated: 3.5/5 Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Dan Sallitt Senses of Cinema George Romero's Diary of the Dead suffers from an excess of personality rather than a lack of it. Oct 12, 2018 Full Review Mark Asch Stop Smiling One needn't be a splatter junkie to miss Romero's marshalling of action across multiple theaters. But the maestro finds a way to slay intellectual and aesthetic antsiness with the same bullet. Sep 30, 2014 Full Review Kelly Vance East Bay Express Not the best but certainly far from the worst of Romero's series of accounts of an epidemic of dead people coming to life to eat the living. Apr 28, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis While on location filming a horror movie, a group of college students find themselves overrun by zombies, and ultimately end up capturing the epidemic on film.
      Director
      George A. Romero
      Producer
      Steve Barnett, Dan Fireman
      Screenwriter
      George A. Romero
      Distributor
      Weinstein Co.
      Production Co
      Artfire, Romero-Grunwald
      Rating
      R (Pervasive Language|Gore|Strong Horror Violence)
      Genre
      Horror, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 15, 2008, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 1, 2014
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $952.6K
      Runtime
      1h 35m
      Sound Mix
      Dolby SRD
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)
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